Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you look at the prevalence or the rates of anorexia, in the last 10 years or 20 years, and you compare that to when anorexia was first identified, which was in the 1600s, and perhaps even earlier, what you find is that rates of anorexia are not going up. So, this idea that the images that we're being bombarded with are causing anorexia doesn't seem to be true. Now, that is not to say that the images that we in particular young people are being bombarded with are healthy for the psychological state of mind. But classically define anorexia has existed at essentially the same prevalence for the last 100, 200, 300 and 400 years, which is incredible and really speaks to the likelihood that there's a strong biological contribution to what we call anorexia nervosa.